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From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
To: Hao Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Christian Brauner <[email protected]>,
	Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>, Clay Harris <[email protected]>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] add nowait parameter for iomap_seek()
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:01:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 06:25:59PM +0800, Hao Xu wrote:
> From: Hao Xu <[email protected]>
> 
> Add a nowait parameter for iomap_seek(), later IOMAP_NOWAIT is set
> according to this parameter's value.

This shows the problem with adding booleans as flags to
functions. Now there are -two- anonymous boolean flags to
iomap_seek(), and reading the code becomes really hard to know what
is actually being asked of iomap_seek().

This is another reason for not combining iomap_seek_data/hole()...

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
[email protected]

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-26 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-26 10:25 [RFC 0/7] io_uring lseek Hao Xu
2023-07-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 1/7] iomap: merge iomap_seek_hole() and iomap_seek_data() Hao Xu
2023-07-26 21:50   ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-27 12:10     ` Hao Xu
2023-07-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 2/7] xfs: add nowait support for xfs_seek_iomap_begin() Hao Xu
2023-07-26 21:55   ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-26 22:14     ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-07-27 12:17       ` Hao Xu
2023-07-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 3/7] add nowait parameter for iomap_seek() Hao Xu
2023-07-26 22:01   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2023-07-26 10:26 ` [PATCH 4/7] add llseek_nowait() for struct file_operations Hao Xu
2023-07-27 13:25   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-07-26 10:26 ` [PATCH 5/7] add llseek_nowait support for xfs Hao Xu
2023-07-26 22:14   ` Dave Chinner
2023-07-27 12:26     ` Hao Xu
2023-07-26 10:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] add vfs_lseek_nowait() Hao Xu
2023-07-26 10:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] add lseek for io_uring Hao Xu
2023-07-26 13:22 ` [RFC 0/7] io_uring lseek Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 12:30 ` Hao Xu

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